Lectra announces new investment in India

02/02/2012
Textile industry technology provider Lectra is to open two new offices in India. One of these offices will be in the capital, New Delhi, and the other in Tirupur in Tamil Nadu, which has a large concentration of textile manufacturers. In addition, Lectra is to open a new international call centre in Bangalore and will strengthen its sales and distribution network in India.

Lectra has been present in India since 1998 and opened its a subsidiary in Bangalore in 2008, but chief executive, Daniel Harari, explained the reasons for this new investment in its business there by saying: “Indian manufacturers have now reached a critical size, and they require local expert support to optimise the benefits they can have by using Lectra solutions.”

He listed the strengths of the Indian manufacturing sector at present as the availability of raw materials and skilled labour, growing domestic demand, and the ability to manufacture a variety of products meeting both the domestic and export requirements.